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  2. Color symbolism - Wikipedia

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    White. White is a primary color across all models of color space. It most often symbolizes perfection, faith, innocence, softness, and cleanliness. Brides often wear white dresses to symbolize purity. Pink. Pink is a prominent secondary or tertiary color in many color space models.

  3. White - Wikipedia

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    H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred) White is the lightest color and is achromatic (having no hue ). It is the color of objects such as snow, chalk, and milk, and is the opposite of black. White objects fully reflect and scatter all the visible wavelengths of light.

  4. Color in Chinese culture - Wikipedia

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    White (白, bái) corresponds with metal among the wuxing and represents gold [dubious – discuss] and symbolizes brightness, purity, and fulfillment. [citation needed] White is also the traditional color of mourning. Nevertheless, since the Chinese economic reform and influx of Western cultural values, white wedding gowns have become more ...

  5. Political colour - Wikipedia

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    Grey is often used to represent independent politicians, however in the UK, white is used to represent independent politicians. Green Green banner and signs at an anti-nuclear protest by the Green Party in Germany in 2008. Green is the colour for both environmentalist and Islamist political parties and movements (see green in Islam).

  6. Handkerchief code - Wikipedia

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    e. The handkerchief code (also known as the hanky code, the bandana code, and flagging) [1] is a system of color-coded cloth handkerchief or bandanas for non-verbally communicating one's interests in sexual activities and fetishes. The originator Kieran Cooke developed the system under the tutelage of John Catterson BTO/OEM.

  7. Definitions of whiteness in the United States - Wikipedia

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    It defines "white people" as "people having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa". The Federal Bureau of Investigation uses the same definition. The definition actually does vary and is also published as "a light skinned race", which avoids inclusion of any sort of nationality or ethnicity.

  8. Shades of white - Wikipedia

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    Web colors. Below is a chart showing the computer web color shades of white. An achromatic white is a white color in which the red, green, and blues codes are exactly equal. The web colors white and white smoke are achromatic colors. A chromatic shade of white is a white color in which the red, green, and blue codes are not exactly equal, but ...

  9. Yin and yang - Wikipedia

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    Yin and yang. A taijitu of a particular style that is often called a "yin and yang symbol", with black areas with a white spot representing yin, and the opposite (White with a black spot) representing yang. Chinese name. Traditional Chinese. 陰陽.

  10. Hue - Wikipedia

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    In color theory, hue is one of the main properties (called color appearance parameters) of a color, defined technically in the CIECAM02 model as "the degree to which a stimulus can be described as similar to or different from stimuli that are described as red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet," within certain theories of color vision.

  11. National colours of Italy - Wikipedia

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    In particular, the Italian tricolore adapted from the French tricolour of blue (fraternity), white (equality) and red (liberty; also, white symbolized the monarchy, while red and blue were the ancient Coat of arms of Paris).